Cadet death staff still leading trips

Only one force instructor, Major George McCallum, has been suspended since the 14 year-old's death

Army cadet force officers who led a training exercise in which a 14 year-old girl drowned have been allowed to take cadets on subsequent trips, despite the possibility of a criminal investigation into their actions, it has been claimed.

The parents of Kaylee McIntosh claim to have been told by an army source that only one of the 15 instructors has been suspended and several had participated in further trips.

Kaylee, from Fyvie in Aberdeenshire, died in August 2007 after being trapped beneath a capsized boat on Loch Carnan, South Uist. The report of a fatal accident inquiry, published last week, listed more than a dozen failures by officers in the 2nd Battalion of the Highlanders Army Cadet Force, which may have contributed to the teenager's death.

An error in a head count taken immediately after the incident meant more than 90 minutes passed before anyone noticed the girl was